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Men use the night to erase us.
Remember: Resist do not comply.
Touch is the meaning of being human.
Violation is a synonym for intercourse.
I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.
The universal religion - contempt for women.
I dream that love without tyranny is possible
I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
I believe couples should have separate bedrooms.
The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.
In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.
Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.
The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.
Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.
Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.
Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone.
To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?
Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for.
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.
My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely unfair.
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.
I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept.